Ecosystem services provided by river-floodplain ecosystems

DK Petsch, VM Cionek, SM Thomaz, NCL Dos Santos - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
River-floodplain ecosystems (RFEs) provide multiple ecosystem services. However, their
importance may be underestimated because they are not summarized yet. In this paper, we …

Hydropower dams of the Mekong River basin: A review of their hydrological impacts

JS Hecht, G Lacombe, ME Arias, TD Dang, T Piman - Journal of hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydropower production is altering the Mekong River basin's riverine ecosystems, which
contain the world's largest inland fishery and provide food security and livelihoods to …

Global Dam Tracker: A database of more than 35,000 dams with location, catchment, and attribute information

AT Zhang, VX Gu - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
We present one of the most comprehensive geo-referenced global dam databases to date.
The Global Dam Tracker (GDAT) contains 35,000 dams with cross-validated geo …

Biodiversity conservation through the lens of metacommunity ecology

JM Chase, A Jeliazkov, E Ladouceur… - Annals of the new York …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin

G Ziv, E Baran, S Nam, I Rodríguez-Iturbe… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
The Mekong River Basin, site of the biggest inland fishery in the world, is undergoing
massive hydropower development. Planned dams will block critical fish migration routes …

How green is 'green'energy?

L Gibson, EN Wilman, WF Laurance - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Renewable energy is an important piece of the puzzle in meeting growing energy demands
and mitigating climate change, but the potentially adverse effects of such technologies are …

Large reservoirs as ecological barriers to downstream movements of Neotropical migratory fish

FM Pelicice, PS Pompeu, AA Agostinho - Fish and Fisheries, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Most large rivers in South America are fragmented by large dams, and a common
management strategy to mitigate impacts has been construction of fish passes. Recent …

Designing river flows to improve food security futures in the Lower Mekong Basin

JL Sabo, A Ruhi, GW Holtgrieve, V Elliott, ME Arias… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The Mekong River provides renewable energy and food security for a
population of more than 60 million people in six countries: China, Myanmar, Lao PDR …

Future changes in Mekong River hydrology: impact of climate change and reservoir operation on discharge

H Lauri, H de Moel, PJ Ward… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2012 - hess.copernicus.org
The transboundary Mekong River is facing two ongoing changes that are expected to
significantly impact its hydrology and the characteristics of its exceptional flood pulse. The …

Sand mining in the Mekong Delta revisited-current scales of local sediment deficits

C Jordan, J Tiede, O Lojek, J Visscher, H Apel… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam has been heavily impacted by anthropogenic
stresses in recent years, such as upstream dam construction and sand mining within the …